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  2. Jerry Lawson (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer.Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges for durable used as commercial video game cartridges.

  3. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    Like most consumer electronics, home video game consoles are developed based on improving the features offered by an earlier product with advances made by newer technology. For video game consoles, these improvements typically occur every five years, following a Moore's law progression where a rough aggregate measure of processing power doubles ...

  4. Ralph H. Baer - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Baer was born in 1922 to Lotte (Kirschbaum) and Leo Baer, [5] a Jewish family living in Germany, in Pirmasens, [6] [7] and was originally named Rudolf Heinrich Baer. At age 14, he was expelled from school due to anti-Jewish legislation implemented in Nazi Germany and had to go to an all-Jewish school. [8]

  5. Factorio - Wikipedia

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    Factorio is a construction and management simulation game focused on resource-gathering with real-time strategy and survival elements. The player survives by locating and harvesting resources to craft various tools and machines, which in turn create more advanced materials that allow for the progression to more sophisticated technologies and machines.

  6. Atari, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, after the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released in June 1982, Warner chairman Steve Ross negotiated directly with Steven Spielberg to secure video game rights estimated to have cost Atari $20−25 million, to make a video game based on the film, which was programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw over a period of five weeks to be ...

  7. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  8. Gunpei Yokoi - Wikipedia

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    "Withered technology" in this context refers to a mature technology which is cheap and well understood. "Lateral thinking" refers to finding radical new ways of using such technology. Yokoi held that toys and games do not necessarily require cutting-edge technology; novel and fun gameplay are more important. In the interview, he suggested that ...

  9. List of years in video games - Wikipedia

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    The highest selling arcade game of the year is F-1. 1977 – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game console. [5] 1978 – Space Invaders is released, popularizing the medium and beginning the golden age of arcade video games. [6]